Chapter 4: Last Friday night
Citrine woke up and gasped for air.
"Whoa, calm down girl, glad to see you're awake,"
"Who are you, were am I?"
"Citrine its me ,Mossy,"
Citrine let out a sigh of relief.
"What the heck happened? All I remember is going to the pool for water and then almost drowning..."
Mossy grabbed Citrine, and pulled her into a tight hug.
"I thought you were gone..."
"I'm fine, but what happened?"" I was going to the pool the same time you were, when I saw Obasidan trying to drown you. I knocked him out and took you up here into this cave,"
"Thanks for saving my life Mossy,"
"It's no problem,"
"No its not, wait, what happened to you?"
Citrine pushed Mossy into the light, and saw that his chest, and his arms were burnt.
"Citrine its nothing, don't worry about it,"
"You're injured Mossy,"
"I'm okay, just...do you still have that sunflower I gave you?""Yes,I have it,"
"Tear off one of the petal, and rub it in your hands,"
As Citrine followed Mossy's instructions, her hands began to glow like the sun.
"Wow, I feel like I'm holding the sun,"
"Technically you are, can you put your hand right here ,"
Mossy pointed to his chest. Citrine placed her glowing hand were, he pointed. Mossy's skin began to glow, and he started to cringe in pain. As Citrine's hand grew brighter, his scares began to fade, and the burn marks disappear completely.
"Wow, I didn't know that the sunflower could do this, how did this happen anyway?"Mossy sat up, and held Citrine's glowing hand, that was pressed against his crisped chest.
"Sunstone found out I had a Sunflower, and he demanded that I hand it over. Since I didn't have have it, he started to attack me. Then I took off running, and found you almost drowned to death,"
"Its a good thing you gave it to me,"
"Yeah, it is,"
Mossy crawled closer to Citrine.
"You have no idea, how much torture we go through..." Mossy croaked while he began shaking.
Citrine placed her head on Mossy's shoulder. Feeling her closer to him, Mossy wrapped his arms around her. "I'm so sorry..."
Mossy's eyes began to water as he held Citrine for comfort. He gently placed her head on his chest, and let all his tears flow. Citrine has never been around Mossy when he felt this low. To Citrine, Mossy was her best friend, and it pained her to see him like this. She started to think, this was their last night be actually be friends, and it burned her when she realized this. Citrine closed her eyes. "Tonights the last night Moss," Citrine whispered while holding the sunflower tightly in her fists.
Mossy buried his head in her yellow braids. Neither of them wanted to think about how life was without each other. Looking down on each of their armies made their hearts ache. War was going to start in exactly 24 hours, and nothing the two gems could do to prevent it. Citrine nuzzled closer into Mossy's looked up, with bloodshot silver eyes. He looked Citrine in her beautiful yellow eyes.
"After today... what's going to happen?"Mossy sulky asked.
Citrine placed her head on his chest again.
"I don't know Mossy, but lets savors every moment we have left,""What going to happen if I go back?"
"I don't know...just promise me you'll be careful,okay?"
"I will, if you promise me something,"
"Yes, anything Mossy,"
"We'll always be friends...right?"
"Of course Mossy, of course, "
"Citrine should be back by now, shes been gone to long" Rose observed.
"There she is, Citrine, were have you been? " Garnet flatly asked.
Citrine stumbled into the officer tent, clothes tattered and soaking wet. "What the heck happened to you Citrine, why are your clothes all messed up, how come your all wet?" Pearl asked.
Citrine didn't respond to anyone. Instead she raised a bed of Citrine gems from the ground, sat in it, and curled into a tight ball.
"Umm girls, I think Turquoise wants us in her tent," Rose suggested.
Garnet was about to leave with the group when Rose stopped her.
"Maybe you should talk to her, I mean, she is your cousin..." Rose said.
"I'll see what I can do," Garnet stated.
She walked back into the tent, were a little yellow gem laid.
"You okay?"Citrine curled up tighter in her ball, and made the walls of her yellow gem grow higher around her. Garnet was utterly confused.
"Citrine?" Garnet repeated. She gently placed her hand on the yellow gem's shoulder. Citrine came out of her ball and looked at Garnet, eyes all red and puffy.
"What happened to you?"
"Obsidian tried to drown me,"
Garnet's face turned red in anger. It was enough for him trying to defeat Garnet by cheating, but attempting to murder her own cousin, It was enough to make Garnet go rouge. For the moment, she had to remain calm.
"Who saved you?""Mossy did..."
"How did your clothes rip up?"
"I put up as much of a fight as I could against Obasidian before I fell unconscious,"
"I see..."
"But Garnet?"
"Yes Citrine?"
"What if I don't want to hurt anyone, I mean, he's on the other side, I don't want to hurt him..." Citrine confessed through fresh tears.
Garnet sighed.
"I know how your feeling Citrine, the Alex brothers were my best friends. But I have a duty to defend my spire, and the gems that are in it, that always comes first,"
Citrine nodded solomly. She looked up and weakly smiled.
"Thanks Garnet, you always know what to say,"
"No problem cousin,"
Garnet wrapped her arms around Citrine, let her cry on her shoulder.
"Let it all out Citrine, just let it all out."